Robert Redford Net Worth

Robert Redford Net Worth is$170 Million

Robert Redford Bio/Wiki 2018

Robert Redford Net Worth $170 Million

Charles Robert Redford, Jr. hasan estimated net worth of $170 million. Redford is a famed celebrity but additionally top rated director and producer. He is also acknowledged as environmentalist and Sundance Festival creator, among the most famous films events. He went to high school Van Nuys High. He enrolled at University of Colorado and Pratt Institute. After that he took his first theatrical set design classes at Academy of Dramatic Arts. He played tennis, football and baseball. At high school he won a baseball scholarship. He began his acting career in nyc on stage in Barefoot in the Park, a famed romantic comedy by Neil Simon. At that early stages Redford took appearance in several television shows. His actual breakthrough was in “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” where he acted along Paul Newman. After that movie he starred in “The Sting”, “The Candidate” and many others. During his career he acted in more than 60 movies, and directed more than 10 movies. His director portfolio comprises an Oscar winning “Ordinary People”. Robert Redford won the Academy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002. and French Knighthood in the Legion d’Honneur in 2010.

[on Michelle Pfeiffer] She has a great sense of humor. There's a scene after the first time we have a tryst in Up Close & Personal (1996); she says goodbye to me and hands me a gift. I was just supposed to look at it and smile. I unwrapped it and inside was a picture frame, and Michelle had slipped in a photo of herself in a bathing suit winning the Miss Orange County beauty contest. I still have the photo.

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[on filming All Is Lost (2013)] It was a bold and pure cinematic experience. It was stripped to the bone and I found that very appealing.. Being wet all day was the hardest thing. You get depressed being wet all the time.

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[on choosing Jackie Evancho to play his daughter in The Company You Keep (2012)] I have a big thing about child actors who "act" as opposed to child actors who can be natural, who can be real. Scarlett Johansson was a kid when we did The Horse Whisperer (1998), and I was concerned if a child looked like they were acting it would be like fingernails on a blackboard. So I'm depressed and I go back to my room and I do something I don't usually do and that's surf. And suddenly I'm skipping across these channels and there's this angelic face..singing. And there's a close-up and I think: 'Who's that?' and she was singing Puccini's opera.

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I believe history has a habit of repeating itself, that's for sure, but one of things I'm critical of my country on is that we don't seem to take note of the lessons that history teaches us. My country is pretty prone to everything wanting to be black and white, or red, white and blue. And in my experience of life, nothing was ever that simple. No one was dealing with the grey areas. So I decided to become a filmmaker so I could deal with that.

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[US President Barack Obama] has just rejected a permit for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline--a project that promised riches for the oil giants and an environmental disaster for the rest of us. His decision represents a victory of historic proportions for people from throughout the pipeline path and all across America.

I am passionate. I am political about my country, about what it is, how strong it is, how strong it remains. Lions for Lambs (2007) got rough treatment, and I think it was because--and I don't want to sound defensive--but I think it was misperceived. I am not a left-wing person. I'm just a person interested in the sustainability of my country.

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[on the Sundance Film Festival] Political activism has been a part of my life and part of the films I try to make. But we don't focus on any one theme or another. We don't take any ideological stance. I'm anti-ideology. Our work tries to transcend politics. Whatever side you're on, we try to show stories from every part of the country, and so 'red state, blue state' doesn't mean a whole lot to us.

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[on the death of longtime friend Paul Newman] I have lost a real friend. My life--and this country--is better for his being in it.

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They throw that word "star" at you loosely, and they take it away equally loosely. You take the responsibility for their crappy movie, that's what that means.

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[on working with Dustin Hoffman on All the President's Men (1976)] One of the joys of the movie was working with Dustin; he has one of the most wonderful acting minds I've ever worked with.

[during his opening-night address at the Sundance Film Festival, claiming U.S. politicians exploited public support of invasions] We put all our concerns on hold to let the leaders lead. I think we're owed a big, massive apology.

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All my life I've been dogged by guilt because I feel there is this difference between the way I look and the way I feel inside.

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A lot of what acting is, is paying attention.

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I often feel I'll just opt out of this rat race and buy another hunk of Utah.

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I've bought hundreds of acres around my home. That's why I moved here from the coast. There's plenty of room to roam and be alone with nature. That's living. The city life is merely existing.

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I got a review when I was starting in live television. This guy Jack O'Brian called me "hammy and overwrought". Now I'm looking back on it, I'd like to hold on to those reviews. It keeps you in perspective. It really does. Part of you says, "You know, I never ever really got over that." And what I think you learn very early on is not to believe your own press clippings, one way or another, just do your work. Because you're your own tough critic. If you focus on doing the work, you'll get to a place of refinement where those reviews which are often hyped up too much to the negative or the positive fall away.

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[on his friendship with Paul Newman] There are certain friendships that are sometimes too good and too strong to talk about.

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[on his relationship with Paul Newman] When we made the movies nobody used the word "chemistry". Nobody used the word "bonding". It was just: "Get up there and do your job!"

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I have to be human, of course, to be flattered by attention from the public. How could you not be? But it gets pretty intense when people are going after your clothes, and mobbing you in the streets, and you have to hide. That's kind of amusing, and kind of mind-boggling when it happens - you kind of go with it and have fun with it. Then it gets tiring, and then it gets worse when you realize you're being robbed of a vital part of your life, which is your privacy. And you also know what's coming your way is artificial, because those people are reacting to something they saw on the screen, not you as a person.

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You should prepare when you go to a public event to be public. That's when I will sign autographs. But not when you're going about your normal business.

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I learned early that you'd better know what you're talking about. You'd better realize that certain issues are going to be so hot - no matter what reason, what logic you apply to it - you're going to be met with an opposition just because their viewpoint is different, and there's no way they're going to accept your reasoning. Furthermore, they're going to attack you because you will be portrayed as not being credible: "You're an actor. What do you know?"

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by Robert Osborne, "Academy Awards 1974 Oscar Annual"] I used to feel competitive about a career, but now the only things I'm really passionate about are my family, the environment and Indians.

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[on refusing the role of Benjamin Braddock in The Graduate (1967), the role that made Dustin Hoffman a star seven years before Redford obtained super-star status himself] I never did look like a 21-year-old just out of college who'd never been laid.

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Some people have analysis. I have Utah.

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I am perhaps the best-looking grandfather around, apart from Marlon Brando, of course!

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As a director, I wouldn't like me as an actor. As an actor, I wouldn't like me as a director.

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[on his appearance in Havana (1990)] All everyone talked about was aging. It took me by surprise because I have not thought of myself that way. I assumed I would age naturally, as time went on.

He and his A Bridge Too Far (1977) co-star Laurence Olivier are the only people to act in and direct different Academy Award for Best Picture winners: (1) Olivier played Maximilian de Winter in Rebecca (1940) and directed Hamlet (1948), in which he also played the title role and (2) Redford played Johnny Hooker in The Sting (1973) and Denys Finch Hatton in Out of Africa (1985) and directed Ordinary People (1980).

His daughter, Shauna, was in a relationship with Sid Wells for three years until he was murdered on August 1, 1983. The suspect, roommate Thayne Smika, has been on the run since 1986 over theft charges. The first grand jury did not issue an indictment for murder believed to be a result of misconduct by the district attorney. After a cold case investigation in December 2010 an arrest warrant for the murder was issued. This was featured on The Hunt With John Walsh, which aired on August 10, 2014.

Grandfather of Anna Michaela Schlosser (born 1991) and Conor James Schlosser (born July 29, 1992) (children of daughter Shauna Redford and Eric Schlosser), Dylan Larson Redford (born 1991) and Lena Redford (born 1996) (children of son James Redford and Kyle Smith) and Eden Hart August (born 2008) (daughter of daughter Amy Redford and Matt August).

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Like his dear friend Paul Newman, both men had firstborn sons named Scott who predeceased their fathers.

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Robert Young, who was a star at MGM in the 1930s and starred in the TV series "Father Knows Best" and "Marcus Welby MD", was a cousin of his mother.

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As a guest on Inside the Actors Studio (1994) (30 Jan. 2005), Redford confessed to host James Lipton that his favorite and least favorite words were, respectively, "Possible" and "Whatever".

1960: He spent his last $500 on two acres of land in Utah, an investment that would ultimately grow to 5,000 acres becoming home to his Sundance Institute. Redford purchase Timp Haven (ski resort) in 1969 and changed the name to Sundance Ski Resort which began operating under Redford's environmentally friendly policies. Sundance is located at the base of Utah's picturesque Mt. Timpanogos and in 1981 Redford formed the Sundance Institute and later the Sundance Film Festival which became too large for Sundance Ski Resort and was moved primarily to Park City, Utah.

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Lifelong friends with Sydney Pollack both men having made their feature film acting debuts in War Hunt (1962).

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2002: Awarded an honorary Academy Award for lifetime achievement as the creator of Sundance, an inspiration to independent and innovative filmmakers everywhere.

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He set up the Sundance Film Institute in Utah for independent filmmakers and in 1997 announced the creation of Sundance Cinemas, a venture with a major distributer to set up a chain of theaters for the screening of independent films. As of 2011, at least two are open.

His performance as the Sundance Kid in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) is ranked #20 on the American Film Institute's 100 Heroes & Villains. This is a ranking he shares with Paul Newman, who portrayed Butch Cassidy.

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1996: Awarded the American National Medal of the Arts by the National Endowment of the Arts in Washington, DC.

He is an environmental conservationist and often advocates and supports natural causes.

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2005: Premiere Magazine ranked him as #17 on a list of the Greatest Movie Stars of All Time in their Stars in Our Constellation feature.

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Dislikes watching his own films. The only film in which he was completely satisfied with his own performance was The Sting (1973).

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After his suggestions of Warren Beatty, Alain Delon and Burt Reynolds to play the role of Michael Corleone in The Godfather (1972) were rejected by Francis Ford Coppola, Paramount production chief Robert Evans suggested Redford. When Coppola demurred, preferring his first choice of Tony Awar-winning Broadway actor Al Pacino, Evans explained that Redford could fit the role as he could be perceived as "northern Italian." Evans lost the struggle, Pacino was cast and a star was born.

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Was originally attached to The Verdict (1982), but dropped out prior to production because he didn't want the character to be "such a loser". Director Sidney Lumet was dismayed by Redford's demands to change the script. The role of Frank Galvin was taken over by his friend Paul Newman, who won an Oscar nomination.

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Is of Irish, Scottish and English descent.

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Alumni of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts (AADA).

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He was voted the 30th Greatest Movie Star of all time by Entertainment Weekly.

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Was given a fishing rod in lieu of the agreed $75 payment for his first professional acting appearance, on a TV game show.

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2004: In addition to being the graduation speaker for Bard College's 144th Commencement, he also received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the college.

He received a chevalier of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (knight) for his work through the Sundance Institute, promoting independent film.

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Was considered for the role of Michael Corleone in The Godfather (1972).

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German painter Sibylle Szaggars has been his longtime companion since 1996.

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Father of Shauna Redford (born on 15 November 1960), James Redford (born on 15 May 1962) and Amy Redford (born on 22 October 1970). His oldest son Scott was born in 1959 and died shortly after from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.

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1995: Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#4).

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10/97: Ranked #29 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list.